DutchNews, May 10, 2016
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| Photo: Facebook |
The
Facebook profile of Labour MP Keklik Yücel was removed for several hours on
Tuesday afternoon shortly after she published a piece criticising ‘the long arm
of [Turkish president] Erdogan’, the Volkskrant reported.
In the past weeks,
Yücel has taken up the cause of Dutch-Turkish columnist Ebru Umar, who has been
under house arrest in Turkey for a fortnight for ‘insulting’ tweets about
president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Yücel wrote on Facebook that many Dutch people
of Turkish origin did not welcome this support. She spread her message on
Twitter this morning, with the hashtag #FreeEbru, and a few hours later her
entire profile disappeared.
Facebook denied that the two issues were connected.
‘We want to emphasise that temporarily taking an account offline has nothing to
do with the MP’s political comments,’ Facebook is quoted as saying by
broadcaster NOS.
The social media platform said there are several reasons why
and account may be temporarily suspended but made no further comment about the
reasoning in Yücel’s case.
The PvdA issued a statement saying: ‘We find it
unacceptable that a voice of the people who writes a candid story about her
motives and ideas should have her profile simply taken offline. We have told
Facebook this, asking it to reactivate her profile immediately.’
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